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sharp-clawed runner
Xiaotingia
Say it like this: “shyow-TIN-gee-uh”
Xiaotingia zhengi
Xiaotingia ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Callovian · Oxfordian · Kimmeridgian) · roughly 165.3 to 149.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2011 · Xu, X.; You, H.; Du, K.; Han, F.
- Hip height
- 0.2 m · 1 ft
- Length
- 0.6 m · 2 ft
- Weight
- 1 kg · 2 lb
- Found in
- China · Tiaojishan
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Eumaniraptora
The story in short
The genus Xiaotingia dates to 2011, the year X. Xu and colleagues described it. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Callovian · Oxfordian · Kimmeridgian), roughly 165.3 to 149.2 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Tiaojishan Formation. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Xiaotingia at a length near 0.6 m, hips about 0.2 m high, and a body mass around 1 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Eumaniraptora, among the theropod dinosaurs.